Expert System for Developing Self-regulated Learning Skills

Bahey, A.; Khater, S.; Eisa, Mohamed

doi:10.21608/mjeer.2010.66544

Expert System for Developing Self-regulated Learning Skills

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of computer science Mansoura University, 35516, Egypt

10.21608/mjeer.2010.66544

Abstract

Expert system for teaching programming languages is presented in this paper. Many teachers can cooperate together to put the curriculum of one/more computer programming language(s). Their contributions may include: (a) add or modify the commands’ structure that will be taught; (b) generate different tutoring dialogs for the same command; and (c) generate different tutoring styles. On the contrary, the students can access the system through WWW, select any language they want to learn as well as the style of presentation they prefer and they can exchange their experiences. A personal assistant agent for teachers and students with an adaptive interface, and tutoring agent has been built. The tutoring agent resides on the server side and communicates via HTTP and IIOP with both the personal assistant agent for teachers and personal assistant agent for students on the client’s side. This structure allows customization of the personal assistant agent for teachers and students to the needs of the teachers and students, without putting extra burden on the server. In addition, this allows having many teacher agents attending to the needs of a single or multiple student agent(s).

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